Squeezed between a neon-illuminated bail bond office and a corner caf painted in vivid art-deco colors, rustic Crescent Machine Works Inc., at 821 N. Monroe, looks distinctly out of place.The only thing along the weather-beaten front of the to

After a somewhat tumultuous start here, the Spokane operation of Paris-based Alcatel S.A. has secured its role within that multi-billion-dollar company and apparently, for some time to come, its future in Spokane.When Alcatel acquired Packet in

A shift in the supply and demand for workers has forced staffing agencies here and elsewhere to alter the way they do business.Through the late 1980s and much of the 1990s, many agencies prospered mainly by supplying temporary or contract whom a

The Spokane County Fair & Expo Center has created a master plan outlining roughly $8.7 million worth of expansions and upgrades at its facilities here.The plan was drawn up to clarify the fairgrounds long-range goals and to provide information

Minera Andes Inc., a small Spokane mining exploration company, says its joint-venture partner in an Argentinian gold and silver prospect will exercise its option to proceed with extensive exploration of the property.Such work is done as a mining

Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co., of Spokane, has raised more than $293 million through a recent offering, called a securitization, that involved the sale of about 3,500 adjustable-rate and fixed-rate mortgage loans.The latest completed by

A real estate investment group headed by Spokane businessman Joe Harwood recently bought three buildings downtown that either are being remodeled or will be renovated soon.The transactions involve the former House of Charity building, on the of

Hollister-Stier Laboratories LLC, the Spokane-based allergy-products maker, has signed two agreements that result from the companys ongoing efforts to diversify its activities, says Bill Bauernschmidt, Hollister-Stiers vice president of part of

Northwest TeleHealth, a Spokane-based telemedicine network, will receive a $2.7 million grant from Qwest Communications International Inc. to expand the network further throughout Eastern Washington.Telemedicine enables doctors in one community

Fairchild Air Force Base is proposing to build a $10 million to $15 million central deployment center on base, and is asking that funding for that project be included in the federal governments fiscal 2002 budget.Lee Paul, chief engineer at a